Weird crash when going up the ladder from coolant tubes to medical

edpfister on 10/9/2006 at 02:23

I read all the posts on how to get SS2 working and it has been working fine up until the point where I try to climb out of the coolant tubes area and return to the medical area. This seems very odd as I was in this area earlier and there were no issues. The game doesn't exactly crash but the screen is mostly frozen but some wire-frame rooms appear to be falling away from me after the load screen. I can't move but can bring up the map, menu, etc but they won't go away after that. I was just wondering if anyone had seen a similar issue and if so what was the fix? I am using an NVidia 7800 card, AMD Athlon 3200 with 1 gig of RAM.

C0rtexReaver on 10/9/2006 at 04:08

I think your video card is faulty. You should send it over here for more testing.

-CR

Kolya on 10/9/2006 at 04:27

Hehe. Is this game patched?

Sounds like what I see when I play through dromed and enter "physics".

edpfister on 10/9/2006 at 05:26

I checked on the patches scrolls website and only saw a multiplayer patch and an unofficial patch. What patch are you referring to?

Also I forgot to mention I have the high res texture pack (SHTUP: The System Shock 2 Texture Upgrade Project) installed.

I managed to turn on the power in my game so that the elevator now works but I get the same problem accessing level 2 with that as I do with the ladder.

David on 10/9/2006 at 08:43

The multiplayer patch also incorporates other fixes. If you have a 'Multiplayer' button on your main menu then you already have the patch, if you you can grab it (http://www.sshock2.com/files/shkpatch.exe) here.

edpfister on 10/9/2006 at 16:11

I do have a multiplayer button so I guess I have the patch (I installed it a while ago). I actually tried running the game also on my older laptop with the current saves and although I can get to level 2 I start a little bit inside the floor and there are no items or creatures and nothing is useable or animated. It's still unplayable unfortunately. I also saved there and copied it back to my main PC and it is exactly the same as it is on the laptop.

Kolya on 10/9/2006 at 17:04

Try copying medsci1.mis from the cd to your game dir. Possibly you'll also need to start a new game if the save is corrupt.

Do you use any gameplay changing mods like ADAOB, SecMod, etc.?

edpfister on 10/9/2006 at 17:44

I went back to an old save where I was still in the med section, went down the ladder then went right back up and it worked fine. I guess my save file is corrupt. Sucks that I have to go back so far but at least I can play it. Thanks for the help.